Tarot Reading Future
Reading Performed 12/04/2013 at 2:52 PM
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The Meanings of these Tarot Cards
This Covers You
This card gives the influence which is affecting the person or matter of inquiry generally, the atmosphere of it in which the other currents work.
Six of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Apprehension, fear, as of a victorious enemy at the gate; treachery, disloyalty, as of gates being opened to the enemy; also indefinite delay.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fulfillment of deferred hope.
Card Description
A laurelled horseman bears one staff adorned with a laurel crown; footmen with staves are at his side.
This Crosses You
It shows the nature of the obstacles in the matter. If it is a favourable card, the opposing forces will not be serious, or it may indicate that something good in itself will not be productive of good in the particular connexion.
This Crowns You
It represents (a) the Querent's aim or ideal in the matter; (b) the best that can be achieved under the circumstances, but that which has not yet been made actual.
Two of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
On the one hand it is represented as a card of gaiety, recreation and its connexions, which is the subject of the design; but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Troubles are more imaginary than real.
Card Description
A young man, in the act of dancing, has a pentacle in either hand, and they are joined by that endless cord which is like the number 8 reversed.
This is Beneath You
It shows the foundation or basis of the matter, that which has already passed into actuality and which the Significator has made his own.
Three of Pentacles from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Metier, trade, skilled labour; usually, however, regarded as a card of nobility, aristocracy, renown, glory.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
If for a man, celebrity for his eldest son.
Card Description
A sculptor at his work in a monastery. Compare the design which illustrates the Eight of Pentacles. The apprentice or amateur therein has received his reward and is now at work in earnest.
This is Behind You
It gives the influence that is just passed, or is now passing away.
Three of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
This is Before You
It shows the influence that is coming into action and will operate in the near future.
Eight of Wands from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Arrows of jealousy, internal dispute, stingings of conscience, quarrels; and domestic disputes for persons who are married.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings (When Upright)
Domestic disputes for a married person.
Card Description
The card represents motion through the immovable-a flight of wands through an open country; but they draw to the term of their course. That which they signify is at hand; it may be even on the threshold.
Your Self
Signifies the person or thing about which the question has been asked, and shows its position or attitude in the circumstances.
Seven of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
Fairy favours, images of reflection, sentiment, imagination, things seen in the glass of contemplation; some attainment in these degrees, but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fair child; idea, design, resolve, movement.
Card Description
Strange chalices of vision, but the images are more especially those of the fantastic spirit.
Your House
Your environment and the tendencies at work therein which have an effect on the matter €”for instance, your position in life, the influence of immediate friends, and so forth.
Five of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Upright
It is a card of loss, but something remains over; three have been taken, but two are left; it is a card of inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations; with some interpreters it is a card of marriage, but not without bitterness or frustration.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Generally favourable; a happy marriage; also patrimony, legacies, gifts, success in enterprise.
Card Description
A dark, cloaked figure, looking sideways at three prone cups two others stand upright behind him; a bridge is in the background, leading to a small keep or holding.
Your Hopes and Fears
Eight of Swords from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery; what is unforeseen; fatality.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Departure of a relative.
Card Description
A woman, bound and hoodwinked, with the swords of the card about her. Yet it is rather a card of temporary durance than of irretrievable bondage.
The Final Result
The culmination which is brought about by the influences shewn by the other cards that have been turned up in the divination.
Ten of Cups from the Waite Smith Tarot Deck
Card Meaning When Reversed
Repose of the false heart, indignation, violence.
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Sorrow; also a serious quarrel.
Card Description
Appearance of Cups in a rainbow; it is contemplated in wonder and ecstacy by a man and woman below, evidently husband and wife. His right arm is about her; his left is raised upward; she raises her right arm. The two children dancing near them have not observed the prodigy but are happy after their own manner. There is a home-scene beyond.